Abortion

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The initial insight from leading conservative judicial experts is that pro-abortion Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has little experience. They also say she has promoted the use of foreign law in court decisions, which could further entrench the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed virtually unlimited abortions.

Ed Whelen writes at National Review that Kagan has no judicial experience herself yet, in a law-review article on the Supreme Court confirmation process she wrote in 1995, said such experience is necessary.

"It is an embarrassment that the President and Senate do not always insist, as a threshold requirement, that a nominee’s previous accomplishments evidence an ability not merely to handle but to master the “craft” aspects of being a judge," Kagan wrote at the time...

A number of states are moving on legislation to opt out of abortion coverage in healthcare reform legislation.

Critics say one of the major problems with the new healthcare law is related to federal funding of abortion. But a provision allows states to make a decision.

Attorney Mary Harned of Americans United for Life (AUL) reports that four states have passed bills modeled after the organization's Abortion-Mandate Opt-Out Act...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The buzz around Washington today is that President Barack Obama will likely announce his Supreme Court nomination on Monday. When he does, several news reports citing White House officials indicate he will select pro-abortion Solicitor General Elena Kagan.

If nominated, Kagan, a former Harvard Law dean, would replace retiring pro-abortion Justice John Paul Stevens.

Kagan is an ardent abortion advocate who, at 50, would leave a pro-abortion legacy for Obama on the Supreme Court for decades to come. She would confirm the suspicion of many political observers that Obama decided to go with a radical left-wing nominee while Democrats control the Senate with a huge advantage that is expected to deteriorate after the November elections...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In an apparent attempt to send a message to President Barack Obama that they will not support a radical nominee for Supreme Court, Senate Republicans on Thursday delayed by a week a vote on the nomination of pro-abortion law professor for an appellate court position.

The committee approved four district court nominees yesterday, but Republicans used their rights as the minority to delay a vote on Liu until next week.

As a result, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a pro-abortion Vermont Democrat, scheduled a new vote meeting on Liu for May 13...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- State officials in Pennsylvania want to close the abortion center run by abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell, who is under investigation following the death of a woman in a botched abortion. They say Gosnell has not responded to the charges even though his abortion center is temporarily closed and his license revoked.

Authorities have been probing the Women's Medical Society after an abortion patient died last November.

Massive amounts of drugs found in the victim's system led authorities to suspect Gosnell was illegally prescribing pain-killers. He lost his medical license in both Pennsylvania and neighboring Delaware...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama will likely name a Supreme Court nominee in the coming days or weeks and should he pick federal appeals court Judge Diane Wood, he will get a reliable abortion advocate. Left-wing politicos like her judicial background of taking the most polemic pro-abortion position possible.

Obama's short list of potential nominees to replace retiring pro-abortion Justice John Paul Stevens is said to potentially be down to four names.

With Stevens taking up membership in the pro-abortion majority on the high court, and with Democrats likely losing a considerable number of seats this November, some say Obama will take the opportunity to appoint the most pro-abortion justice possible -- and that would put Wood's name at the top of the list....

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama may have reduced his short list for the Supreme Court to as few as four names, including two strong abortion advocates. Meanwhile, a pro-life group is calling on the president to keep in mind the consideration of Americans who don't want to see abortion expanded further.

White House officials have said about 10 names are currently under consideration to replace retiring pro-abortion Justice John Paul Stevens.

The number on Obama's short list, however, is likely far fewer and the Wall St. Journal reports today that four people are seen as the likely nominee...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The amount of money Komen for the Cure gives to the Planned Parenthood abortion business in grants declined from 2008-2009.

In addition, the donations Komen took in during the same time period are down and one pro-life advocate suggests it is because of Komen's ties to the abortion giant and its refusal to acknowledge that abortion increases the breast cancer risk for women.

According to new research from pro-life activist Jill Stanek into Komen's annual report, Komen donations to Planned Parenthood is down slightly. The organization has had close ties to the abortion business for years...

April 28 was apparently Abortion Uber Alles day at the liberal Web site Daily Kos. Aimee Thorne-Thomsen of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project stated that the number of women who receive abortions is “too low” in “Keep Abortions Safe and Legal? Yes. Make it Rare? Not the Point.”

A separate article blasted the new law in Oklahoma that makes it mandatory for woman to receive ultrasounds by making crude comparisons and calling it “blackmail.”

Even though 1.21 million abortions were performed in 2005, this was not enough for Thorne-Thomsen. She wrote, “On the other hand, if those 1.21 million abortions represent only the women who could access abortion financially, geographically or otherwise, then that number is too low. Yes, too low”...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- None of the pro-life Democrats who backed the pro-abortion health care bill in the House have signed on a co-sponsors of new legislation to apply the Hyde amendment to it. The new bill, the Protect Life Act, would fix the several different ways in which the measure funds abortions.

When Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the new government-run health care bill, some pro-life Democrats supported it saying pro-life groups and lawmakers were wrong and that the measure did not contain taxpayer funding of abortion.

Obama signed an executive order that supposedly curbed the abortion funding, but pro-life groups say it merely restated the provisions of the bill and could easily be overturned in court and has no legal power to trump the abortion funding provisions...